LinkedIn has been rapidly enhancing the capabilities of its mobile app. Last month, it started allowing users to search for jobs. Now, it will let users directly apply for a job via their iOS or Android app. It gives users the option to use their LinkedIn profile as a resume proxy. This is an indirect way for LinkedIn to boost the credibility of its user profiles as legitimate job application material. Read >

NPD Group released news results from a survey that shows 30% of U.S. smartphone owners are willing to change carriers for better smartphone trade-in value. 60% said they would be willing to switch retailers if another was offering better trade-in value, often credit for a new phone. Read >

Gaming company OMGPOP, which Zynga acquired only 17 months ago for $US250 million, was shut down. Before finalising plans, OMGPOP team members were in contact with Zynga to buy back the rights to their company website, but Zynga shut down the whole operation entirely. Read >

Ben Woods at The Next Web discusses the lack of hardware innovation at the top of the smartphone pyramid, and how hardware makers’ first instinct to shift the balance is by reimagining antique flip phones and sliders with a smartphone operating system. Ben Woods instead argues for a true innovator, in the mould of Elon Musk, to start reinventing the stale smartphone form factor. Read >

Continuing on the topic of smartphone hardware innovation, a graphic designer has envisioned a drastic overhaul of the standard iPhone form factor. It’s a clever way to speculate about ways in which Apple will distinguish itself from its competitors with its next flagship device. Read >